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...backfield problem has steadily occupied the attention of the coaches, and an unfortunate accident Thursday complicated it still further. Coach Ryan started the season with one of the most promising group of backs ever seen on a Freshman team: T. Gehrke, an all-round fullback of remarkable ability; T. M. Carnegie, a brilliant half, and P. Jenkins, his team-mate of almost equal power. This trio, with Gehrke kicking and making long gains, Carnegie showing splendid form in a broken field, and Jenkins plunging, bade fair to surpass the best hopes of the coaches. Early season injuries, however, deprived...
...University team. Harvard's opponents will come to Cambridge Saturday with two ends, a center, and two backs who would be able to gain positions on any big college team in the country. Supplementing these men will be a powerful quartet of linesmen and an unusually effective backfield. Besides this, Coach Moran can play his first team to the limit from the beginning of the game because he has an ample number of substitutes to call upon in case of necessity...
Fitzgerald is driving the team so well that he is slated to start at quarter with Captain Horween, Owen and Churchill filling the other backfield assignments. The ends will be Gaston and Kane; tackles, Faxon and Hubbard; guards, Tolbert and Woods; center, Havemeyer...
Little is known of the Dean players individually except that the backfield is light and fairly fast. The line is reported not to be imposing, and the Academy's greatest strength lies in open plays...
...long session in the coach's room preceded the practice yesterday. The usual routine of tackling, blocking and backfield work was followed by a half-hour dummy scrimmage, in which were introduced several new plays. Special attention was given this dummy workout, from which the teams seemed to make material progress in charging and smoothness of play...